Word: expressionist
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...edges of his paint-splashed canvases. His works are partly autobiographical, since he was entranced as a child by the tools in his father's hardware store in Cincinnati. But unlike most of the artists clustered under the umbrella of Pop art, Dine claimed issue from the expressionist tradition. "My work is the opposite to cool," he once remarked...
...Directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene with heavy infuence from its star, Orson Welles, this is quite simply the best thriller ever made. The grays and blacks of post-war Vienna provide a perfect backdrop to the machinations of Welles's demonic opportunism, and the expressionist camera angles and bizarvesets sets create a disturbing sense of moral disorder in this divided city. Only Welles could turn a simple shot of a cat licking a man's shoe into a unforgettable avatar of terror and corruption...
High Foreheads. Most startling is the dramatically lighted collection of Northwest Indian masks. With their thrusting chins, hooked noses, popping eyes and arrogant high foreheads, the masks could be expressionist versions of the grandees of the Italian Renaissance. "Tell me what difference in standard there should be between these and the dukes of Ferrara," says Coe challengingly...
Died. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, 91, a founder of the German expressionist school of painting; in West Berlin. In 1905 Schmidt-Rottluff joined with several other rebelling art students to form a group known as die Brticke (the Bridge) and to search for an art form and sensibility to replace impressionism. Their solution: primary colors laid side by side on the canvas in powerful forms. In 1937 the Nazis termed Schmidt-Rottluffs work "degenerate" and in 1938 burned some of his paintings and later forbade him to paint. In 1967 the city of West Berlin opened a museum built to house...
Welles did not direct The Third Man, but the film's expressionist camerawork and jagged interplay of light and shadows betrays his influence. Set in post-war Vienna, split into four zones by the occupying powers, this film, written by Graham Greene, is without a doubt one of the best spy thrillers ever made. Tense, well-paced, and exciting, it features Welles as Harry Lime, a treacherous amoral operator around whose machiavellian vision the whole film revolves. Few films other than Hitchcock's pack so much anxiety into a single shot: a cat licking a man's shoe makes...